“If I’m picked up in the street drunk, they do not send me to jail – they send me home in a taxi,” he told NME. “That’s come in handy more than once. The other thing is that I’m allowed to herd my sheep across London Bridge. I did it the night before our show at Brixton. Mostly it went well, there were a couple of accidents. We lost a couple of sheep, but dinner the next night was delicious.”

1 month agoby themusicchannelliveShabba Ranks, Legendary Jamaican Deejay, born Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon, 53 years ago today on 17 January 1966, in Sturge Town, St. Ann. The genre of reggaeton, now a billion-dollar business, was spawned by his 1990 song 'Dem Bow', produced by Bobby 'Digital' Dixon. The Dem Bow riddim became so popular in Puerto Rican freestyle sessions that early reggaeton was simply known as 'Dembow'.